Japan, Britain excluded from Iraq's oil-for-food

From: Rania Masri <rmasri@DELETETHISleb.net>

Subject: Japan, Britain excluded from Iraq's oil-for-food

Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 13:58:18 +0000 (GMT)

Japan, Britain excluded from
Iraq's oil-for-food programme: report
12:02 GMT, 12 August 1998
TOKYO, Aug 12 (AFP) -Iraq excluded
Japan and Britain from its oil export
contracts for the second half of 1998
in an oil-for-food humanitarian
programme agreed under UN
sanctions, a report said Wednesday.
The decision at the "highest level" of
the Iraqi government was apparently
due to the two countries' support for
the sanctions, Kyodo news agency
quoted an Iraqi oil official and
Japanese industry sources as saying.
The oil-rich country instead agreed
more contracts with Russia, France
and China which had been pressing
for an early lifting of the sanctions,
the news agency reported.
Saddam Zaban al-Hassan of Iraq's
State Oil Marketing Corporation said
last month Iraq had so far signed 48
contracts for the six months to
December 3 with unidentified
companies for the sale of 302 million
barrels of oil.
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